Word: nephew
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, ten years after Eduard Benes unhappily yielded Czechoslovakia to Communist control, the late President's nephew, Bohus Benes, became a U.S. citizen. Czech consul general in San Francisco from 1942 to 1948, Bohus Benes is now a part-time lecturer in political science. Coldly straightforward about the significance of his oath to the U.S., he said: "This means that I've given up hope that my country will ever be liberated...
...toward 60 and past her best years (although she would not have admitted it). Clearly Author Dennis (real name: Edward Everett Tanner III) had to backtrack and find a more youthful Mame. Deftly he discovered a hitherto overlooked interlude. It seems that between the time Mame's nephew Patrick was kicked out of St. Boniface Academy in Apathy, Mass. and the time he entered college and the brawny embrace of Bubbles, the waitress, there was a broadening period of travel...
...Pongo Twistleton, Uncle Fred's nephew, who goes all "white and shaken, like a dry martini" on seeing the punctured topper fly through...
...nephew informs me that he knows a girl who uses a royal jelly lipstick, and every time she goes out, she is simply surrounded with a swarm of bees...
...formed a partnership (Strathmore Woolen Co.) with a young Scottish friend who happened to be a nephew of a Maine millowner - and able to open doors to other mill bosses around the region...